Director of Rooms

Hotel Alpenrock brings a fresh take on mountain hospitality to Breckenridge, Colorado. Inspired by the town’s adventurous spirit and gold-rush roots, our four-star service mountain modern hotel delivers authentic local character, and easy access to world-class skiing, hiking, biking, and year-round outdoor adventure. Located at the base of Peak 9 and steps from historic downtown, Hotel Alpenrock is designed to help guests experience the very best of Breckenridge.

As part of Sage Hospitality Group, we believe hospitality is about enriching lives—one experience at a time. Our team members create memorable stays for travelers from around the world while building genuine connections with our guests and our community. Through thoughtful service, collaboration, and creativity, we bring the spirit of Breckenridge to life for every guest who walks through our doors. We’re looking for curious, independent thinkers who bring energy, creativity, and have a passion for hospitality.

At Hotel Alpenrock, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, contribute ideas, and be part of building Breckenridge’s newest luxury hotel. If you are here for the outdoors, value great teamwork, and want to create unforgettable experiences, meet us in the mountains.

The Director of Rooms provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for all Rooms Division departments, ensuring exceptional guest experiences, engaged team members, and strong financial performance. This role is responsible for developing and executiving both short- and long-term operational strategies while leading the daily operations of the Front Office, AdventureRock, and Housekeeping. As a key member of the Executive Committee, the Director of Rooms partners closely with department leaders to drive operational excellence, elevate service standards, and foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continous improvement. This leader champions the guest journey from arrival through departure, ensuring luxury service delivery, operational efficiency, and consistent adherence to brand standards. Success in this role requires highly visible, hands-on leader who is passionate about hospitality, committed to developing high-performing teams, and skilled at balancing operational execution with strategic planning in a dynamic luxury resort environment. 

Bold leadership is the foundation of everything Hotel Alpenrock stands for. The Director of Rooms brings bold mountain energy to the vision, culture, and operational excellence that define this Breckenridge property. At Hotel Alpenrock, every role is part of a larger adventure. In this role, pioneer thinking and genuine care for guests are the twin summits to reach.

• Manage the human resources functions in the division in order to attract, retain and motivate the employees; interview, hire, train, develop, empower, coach and counsel, conduct performance and salary reviews, resolve problems, provide open communication vehicles, discipline and terminate, as appropriate.
• Manages check-in procedures for arriving guests on a daily basis, using both manual and computerized methods, in order to ensure guests are satisfied and in rooms as requested. May need to fill in for various roles within the rooms department as the demands of business requires (Front Office and Housekeeping roles).
• Manages guest departure (check-out) on a daily basis by following established manual and computer procedures in order to close guest accounts and open the room for the next sell.
• Monitors and regularly calculates and/or posts monies, receipts, guest accounts and other forms of credit using accurate, proper cash handling methods and established procedures in order to present the customer with timely and precise hotel charges upon check-out and maintain accurate hotel records.
• Courteously answers inquiries and accepts reservations, both in person and by telephone, by accurately communicating hotel rates and information and by using suggestive selling techniques to sell room nights, increase occupancy and revenue.
• Maintains good customer relations by keeping abreast of all in-house and area functions in order to answer questions and concerns with timely and knowledgeable responses, in person and on telephone.
• Maximizing revenue in each phone/desk transaction.
• Operates the PBX equipment by accepting incoming calls, assisting outgoing calls, scheduling and setting wake-up calls and paging guests to provide guests with timely and efficient service.
• Manages the standard procedures for cash transactions at the front desk and maintains complete responsibility for personal bank as specified by hotel bank agreement policy.
• Resolve customer complaints as appropriate to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction and quality.
• Maintains a friendly, cheerful and courteous demeanor at all times.
• Ensures that the overall operation of the front desk is completed daily.
• Implement emergency organization procedures and training through the management of the security staff to ensure appropriate protection for hotel guests, staff and company assets.
• Works closely with housekeeping and maintenance to ensure property is maintained.
• Performs other duties as assigned, requested or deemed necessary by management.

Education/Formal Training

A four-year college degree or equivalent education/experience.

Experience

Four to five years of employment in a related position with Sage or other organization(s).

Knowledge/Skills

• This includes experiential knowledge required for management of people and complex problems.
• Ability to study, analyze and interpret complex activities and/or information in order to improve new practices or develop new approaches.
• Ability to make decisions with only general policies and procedures available for guidance.
• Supervisory/management skills.
• Must possess communication skills in terms of the ability to negotiate, convince, sell and influence professionals and/or hotel guests
• Hilton Experience a plus

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to respond to guest requests and questions over the phone
• Excellent speech communication skills are required to communicate both in person and via telephone with guests, associates and corporate contacts in a professional and extensive manner.
• Excellent literacy is required. Must be able to both assimilate and generate explicit and concise documents for publication within our corporate environment.
• Lifting, pushing, pulling and carrying -must be able to accomplish any task required of associates within assigned departments.
• Bending/kneeling -must be able to accomplish any task required of associates within assigned departments.
• Mobility -must be able to accomplish any task required of associates within assigned departments.
• Continuous standing -must be able to accomplish any task required of associates within assigned departments.
• Climbing up to approximately 40 steps 1% of 40 hour week. Climbing ladders up to approximately 5 feet 15% of 40 hour week.
• Driving required as necessary

Environment

Inside hotel and office environment 95% of shift

• Eligible to participate in Sage bonus plan

• Unlimited paid time off

• Medical, dental, & vision insurance

• Eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) program with employer matching

• Health savings and flexible spending accounts

• Basic Life and AD&D insurance

• Company-paid short-term disability

• Paid FMLA leave for up to a period of 12 weeks

• Employee Assistance Program

• Great discounts on Hotels, Restaurants, and much more.

• Eligible to participate in the Employee Referral Bonus Program. Up to $1,000 per referral.

** The application period will be open for approximately 30 days or until a suitable candidate is identified. We encourage qualified individuals to submit their applications within this timeframe.